Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Cookware, tableware, or eating utensils made of wood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old plural of
tree . - noun In the Isle of Man, a territorial division, of uncertain origin and purpose, subdivided into estates called
quarterlands . - Wooden: especially noting plates and dishes. See
trencher . - Pertaining to or derived from trees.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- pl. of
tree . - adjective obsolete Made of wood; wooden.
- adjective obsolete Relating to, or drawn from, trees.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Alternative plural form of
tree . - adjective Pertaining to or derived from
trees ;wooden ; made ofwood . - adjective Scotland A large wooden
platter . - noun Household articles made of
wood .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Loab at cod then herrin or wind thin mong them treen.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Madame says: Allo? and you say: Katherine Sil vous plait (Ka-treen see voo play)
"This life I'm living" skipperjbk8 2003
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Madame says: Allo? and you say: Katherine Sil vous plait (Ka-treen see voo play)
skipperjbk8: Like a lemon to the Lime and a Bumble to the Bee skipperjbk8 2003
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In the borough most kitchenware was of wood or cast iron, with other metals generally to mend splits in the treen, wooden, dishes.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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So left her, where she now is turnd to treen mould.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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The third thing they tell of is the exchange of vessel, as of treen platters into pewter, and wooden spoons into silver or tin.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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When the sky is all scarlet on the tops of the treen
Right Royal John Masefield 1922
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The third thing they tell of is the exchange of vessel, as of treen platters into pewter, and wooden spoons into silver or tin.
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Then said our Lord to Moses: Say thou to Aaron: Take this rod and stretch thine hand upon all the waters of Egypt, upon the floods, rivers, ponds, and upon all the lakes where any water is, in that they turn to blood, that it may be a vengeance in all the land of Egypt, as well in treen vessels as in vessels of earth and stone.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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In Harrison's _Elizabethan England_ we read that the times had changed, for instead of "treen platters" there were pewter plates, and tin or silver spoons instead of wood.
johnmperry commented on the word treen
objects made of wood
July 21, 2008